Earlier this week, one of my amazing 2nd grade teachers emailed to ask if I had small hundred charts extending out to 1,200 that her students could use to make personal 1,200 charts. She’d made these with her students at a previous school and wanted her kiddos to have this nifty tool as they work […]

“All the King’s horses and all the King’s men, couldn’t put Humpty together again.” But maybe your kiddos can! Because of their structure (10 rows of 10), hundred charts are powerful tools for developing early understandings of place value. Of course we are moving to 120 charts now, but that just doesn’t roll off your tongue like […]

The CCSS and our new Texas TEKS require that students count to 120, rather than 100. I’ve been waiting for the teacher supply companies to catch up and create a 120 pocket chart, and it looks like they finally have. Here’s a link to one of them on Amazon. Mine is on the way! Some people […]

Last year, I posted a little fall-themed freebie in my TpT store called Closest to 100. The idea of the game is to find the difference between a number and 100. For example, the difference between 53 and 100 is 47. The player with the smaller difference wins the round. A themed hundred chart is […]

Are you still feeling the love from Valentine’s Day? I hope it was a special time for you, your students, and family. BUT, now St. Patrick’s Day is upon us. I wrote a blog post a few days ago about how essential it is that our students recognize patterns, and a powerhouse of patterns is […]

We are waiting on a cold front here in Katy, TX, that’s supposed to bring our temperatures down from the 90s to the 70s. Come on Fall!! I was feeling creative last night, so I found this darling pumpkin patch clipart and made this little partner game. The main focus is computational fluency, but there’s […]

Ssssh! I surprised my awesome 2nd grade teachers today after school with an easy little game for practicing +10 and -10. The game comes from a wonderful new book that was recommended to me, Common Core Math in Action (K-2), by Catherine Jones Kuhns and Marrie Lasater. Kuhns is also the author of a terrific book on […]

Woo hoo!! For my newest unit I really delved into the 1st grade NBT standards, and I’m so pleased with the results. In addition to a Scoot game, two Capture 4 games, three partner spinner games, and seven printables, I’m really excited about the set of cards I developed for working with two digit numbers. […]

I have a great story for you tonight! This morning a 2nd grade teacher burst into my room to tell me what one of her amazing mathematicians had come up with all on his own. Sean was counting coins and doing exactly what he had been taught–he grouped like coins together and began by counting […]

A 120 chart is a great tool for supporting addition and subtraction with our younger kiddos, especially as they start to work with larger numbers. I would suggest having kids add and subtract using a 120 chart before teaching them any kind of formal computation. Here’s what I mean by that. Think of adding 34 + […]

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